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01-12-2015 | Poster presentation
Relationship between MRI derived right ventricular mass and left ventricular involvement in patients with anderson-fabry disease
Authors:
Qin Li, Ming-Yen Ng, Anna Calleja, Djeven P Deva, Andrew Crean, Christiane Gruner, Robert M Iwanochko, Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan
Published in:
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Anderson-Fabry's Disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder in which there is an accumulation of globotriaosylceramide in both atria and ventricles as well as valvular tissue. We sought to investigate if there was a correlation on cardiac MRI between the degree of left ventricular (LV) involvement (ie. LV mass or late gadolinium enhancement) and right ventricular mass. …